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“That was a major, big screw up on my part. I thought they were somebody else.”

Over the weekend, conservative reaction to Armey’s decision to “dish” to Media Matters about his tumultuous exit from FreedomWorks ranged from befuddled to furious.

“If Dick Armey is going to go to Media Matters, he’s willing to burn down the movement over his vendetta,” Red State blogger Erick Erickson wrote on Twitter…

But in a Tuesday phone interview with TheDC, Armey insisted that even though Strupp properly identified himself, it wasn’t until “somebody busted my chops on Facebook” that he realized spoke to a left-wing group.

“I wouldn’t know Media Matters from a hole in the wall,” the 72-year-old told TheDC. “That was a major, big screw up on my part. I thought they were somebody else.”

Yeah, he’ll keep his $8 million payoff while simultaneously decrying Freedom Works for wasting $2 million on the Beck and Limbaugh shows. I don’t disagree with him on the latter, but it’s more than a little hypocritical, given that his own payoff was 4x what was paid to Beck and Limbaugh.